The week's top tech stories includes Syria's Internet blackout, Groupon's board room battles and a new record for Cyber Monday, Scott Austin joins digits to discuss. Photo: AP Images.

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... I ... welcome to Digits Eric the yes J live I'm Simon Constable these maps ... and four he spoke five intact ... and we have Scott Austin of The will Street gentle technology in an interview goes through does aliens and does aliens of all tech stories of reunion boil it down ... to foster not easy there's not an easy I did a lot lot away on their shoulders ... let's not with number five ... thorniest are serious ... I hear it's about Syria ... Syria cutting ... basically cutting unit suffered citizens ... this is a developing stories and happening now for for two days ... and you know during the whole uprising in Syria we seen ... the last twenty months ... I occasionally outages may be the last hours to ... now are seen as of last year into the second day in ... your this comes as the US is really recognizing the opposition coalition ... um so ... there's there's some history stories of saying that ... the government likely is showing off ... a rerouting what's called the IP address is really awesome everybody yet exactly ... and so everything so dark so there are very few people that ... can really get onto the internet to maybe there's some light on to commence the only good and solid indications the US is provided about two thousand Southland ... to help people time you go to the internet but not with the mysterious everything to do it for that isn't enough I mean ... this cycle of this it is there's a lot here that you know as this happens that there is ... no ... really I ... think a military operation a major offensive coming ... um ... because everything shut down some people can get ... to the internet that ... Google I think is unthinkable did this during the Egyptian President ... they have a tool called speak to treat was the Number two in between and together Twitter ... on Tuesday to have the satellite occasion you can talk on a mobile phone you can call him ... I he's in a special number ... and ducal tweets about Matthew Twitter's he can listen to all the security Twitter right now he'll kill this until ... I aam ... it's not clear that there were the coming from a dozen allocation ... is an interesting way to kind of get that those messages out there people always can find a workaround comment that says ... that the fall ... Windows eight ... not only is off to a slow start ... not only is Micra soft really was a lot of high BMI goes up and pinning its hopes nine years with Windows eight ... which came at about a month ago on October twenty six ... but also PC makers like Hewlett-Packard ... you really are dependent on and how Microsoft powered PCs will too ... there was a survey from NPD ... they came out this fear that the Mike SUP tablet PCs were down about twenty one percent in the four weeks ... the three November seventeen ... I'm back tablets every tell it like the spiders look at Micra soft retail stores most of the sales come from ... from those retail stores so ... is it is going to be a catalyst or revise PC sales which have been sluggish ... over the past few years it's unclear if it does take corporations of them to the biggest buyers of PCs members of powered PCs ... probably the year to really adopt the US ... and I know darn well when they do it all to it's it's a massive amount of purchases of minutes as the five ten thousand ... rise ... at its mines that they will see that look we have to see what happen during the holidays as well when will people buy ... some of these PCs and laptops but ... yet Micra soft is kind of tilted towards tablets as well ... it's clear that people are using their smartphones and tablets as compute what one on one of the issue says they use to be ... in one PCs become very popular in the nineties and a lot of the nineties in fact that you have to get an upgrade because the new software would want to know ... they walk ... I mean just you your PC to sports and basically you will continue to walk out at some level for each very very very long time so that the compo that the top rate is up on the premise is that really any incorporates the present I think our own company bought two cycles nineteen oh wait you don't know when it has a lot that even if you don't necessarily need to upgrade to the next one does take quite amount of time but ... you know ... when you wanna see from the consumer side of our people buying Windows eight PCs or does not seem just yet ... just yet but that will will will get into the fray ... Group on the malls the CEO is future ... and so the theory of Andrew Mason he's probably one of the creepiest public as the year is out there ... I knew I came up on a hat ... on stage of the technology companies ... he stresses that costs were shut down the AllThingsDigital widget what ... the future would do that I would he do that I would do that ... last year and has this year he was ... very straight laced ... and because of this ... others report the day before that said that of the group on board was going to meet ... and look at his future and maybe even ... you know push him off ... CEO he's the founder of the company and indeed this is very awkward to came up on stage at this Business Insider conference Henry Blodget ... whose moderate or pass them point blank the very first question ... when he fired on Thursday which is when the board has moved ... and you know he was a matter fact Mason was the idea saying hey look here's a newsflash for stocks down eighty percent ... of the wee years if the board did he ... decide to look at my future in concrete consider it from the Ascot for the job ... aam and the board on Thursday did meet and we got the report that they keep them for now ... for now ... it is interesting I mean he founded and begin posting different skills to to found something to get it going the justice to the dentist at least a veiled different skills this exact is very ready get Steve Jobs and his is the founder of co-founder ... and becomesthe CEO and does great things ... often you know the founders of start-up companies in the Celtic deal ... and you bring in somebody else but no were seen a recent wave of Internet companies ... with with Zuckerberg and Facebook and Mark Pincus and sing get ... give them a stronghold on these companies ... aam and I really their fingerprints are all it's a lot of the other guys from that moment won't come until a stunning and ... cut each field theory cannot conomy ... Mike Lynch the founder of Autonomy Trade barbs so ... this was of course the side of the opening line last night ... around eighty nine has been afforded ... by the step of the the taiko Beaumont all-time reply HP and make the same one ... faced the basically saying that ... Autonomy ... probably cooked the books ... and when HP bought this company for eleven billion dollars ... inflated revenue and had ... no questionable ... sales practices ... aam Mike Lynch the founder of Autonomy a stock that publicly on TV in Theory is reports include Wall Street Journal ... saying you know I totally reject all these allegations this isn't true ... and that HP is covering itself for a bad idea I mean a lot of people look to balance of the size of the Daleks of this is an enormous amount of money with many multiples of this aisles so aam and that the company has a mandate system launch and Billy inbox a million dollars he had two major accounting for its totally think you can she dance teams of lawyers looking at this ... so if there was something fraudulent ... or just even she sales practices you wonder why they didn't catch this but ... Michele's this week came out with an open letter to HP said ... can like YouTube give me all these allegations and seen this before when he specify how you got to recharge ... write down a five billion dollars ... based on these allegations BHP said hey we appreciate it but but but the legal process claim ... I ... also have been sort of of of sending out a flaw told police ... I wanna have a go to so-called Cyber Monday ... in the sales rising ... thirty percent but ... he didn't question Cyber Monday which was coined in two thousand and five ... and really was meant to show it ... how come the end of the real inflation rises sales on on Monday after Thanksgiving ... the biggest sales days of the year ... countering Black Friday ... these questions really whether size firemen even exist the bonus was only retailers start selling on Friday Saturday Sunday on my now some ... and ended the weekend about because people wanted the Fast enzyme action they could get one because of what was on the likely you are you know Christmas was we get a really fast connection easy going and sends out well ... to the Christmas shopping if that's what he wanted to do and I was caught in the day while now it's not the nine Henry Joseph Econa hey look we know we should sell ... some solar products early on ... and and people why why didn't this the stores and set their own ... online ... and get beaten up which are going through the door when you can just buy the same crime and thus pilot the same price ... there was no ... warning that the price sometimes I know one of things I still on the market wanted one a queue up and and maybe to this in the place and not just seems completely amazed me that the rise of just two successive years of increases right of appeal was around but it is not getting any reason these in various surveys Gonzalez question about how they ... get to these numbers but ... he has shown that there's that growth is actually slowing because they're probably spreading out the sales ... over several days so I can see ... CyberMonday going away in the next few years not to really be called ... we still think that the next along with complimentary much Scott Austin technology added that ... the of the Wall Street John all ... our songs also one that spend your top